Last week I posted a link to Lindsay Shepherd’s interview with L.A. based Dave Rubin, noting that the Canadian story had gone international. Turns out that Lindsay’s courage has inspired a female UK blogger named Catherine Kitsis to publish her first video:
Like Lindsay and our very own Kate McMillan, Kitsis is eloquent and full of wisdom. She offers some great insight into the minds of SJW Snowflakes as to “why” they get so incredibly upset at the viewpoints of anyone who disagrees with them. It would be fascinating to hear Jordan Peterson discuss this with Kitsis.
As an added gift, Kitsis has painstakingly transcribed one of the diatribes of interrogator Herbert Pimlott at Lindsay Shepherd’s Kangaroo Court of Injustice. This transcription will be a great asset for future historians who try to make sense of the madness that has infected the unenlightened minds of so many entrusted to teach at universities in 2017.
Pimlott’s ‘diatribe’ is embarrassingly stupefying,for him and the university that has him as an employee. I guess it’s more proof that leftism is a mental disease as some have claimed on this site.
It would have been nice if Catherine ,as well as transcribing the diatribe, could have also translated it so that us non-scholars could actually understand what the hell he was talking about.
Mark Steyn unpacks Lindsay Shepherd’s positionality. Steyn can make you laugh, cry and think at the same time.
https://www.steynonline.com/8299/problematic-positionality
Psychic caption: university fayette
That transcript brutally illustrates the reasoning behind one of my early life choices. As a teenager, I routinely found that a lot of my university-educated teachers were neither bright nor inquisitive. In fact, a lot of the people I knew who had an advanced education came across as dullards to me. Not that I knew a lot of people with degrees, but it just seemed a common trait. The best and the brightest that I knew were the farmers and welders and water well drillers, some of whom had never seen a school past the 8th grade.
Among the educated, I found their homes were empty of the things that are indicative of a curious and inclusive mind: books, or even magazines. Worse, there was a common trait that was distasteful, and that was to look down their noses at those whose schooling had ended at high school, or earlier.
That’s not to say I have no regrets for not pursuing engineering, but what I noticed then is still prevalent today. My wife works in the school system, and I find it amusingly tragic that so many of these middle-aged teachers have so little general knowledge. Bring up the Battle of the Coral Sea, the significance of Ulysses Grant’s upholding of Lincoln’s desire for national reconciliation post-Civil War, or the role the US highway system has played in the growth and development of many American national parks and monuments into national icons, in a conversation and you’ll get a blank stare.
I can have a more meaningful conversation about a ton of weighty subjects with my racing buddies than I can in a room full of academics. I found that with parents of children that our kids were in youth organizations and sports with, as well. This lack of “brightness” may not be prevalent, but it’s terribly common. A lot of times, there is a refusal to engage simply because many seem to think they’re above the discussion.
In the case illustrated by this transcript, they’re simply dumb-asses who got a lengthy stay at an educational facility.
Hey Tim, great choice in commentary! Earlier today I scheduled this video to run tomorrow morning. Steyn is superb, as always!!
Bill, I too have found that in those that have gone to university. As an old guy no one I knew had gone to university yet my brother became a CA from grade 13, my sister a RN as her mother was and I became a director in a large national company. As an example of your point I asked a teaching friend about how a whole cafeteria could be shut every Friday when it was used as a mosque totally against our provincial and Canadian gender human rights act. He knew nothing about it and when I sent him the proof of what is still happening he refused to discuss the issue any longer. Almost every one of my friends and acquaintances that went to university are leftists.
Maybe it’s time to rename “WLU” as “LSU” after Lindsay Shepherd. If not a renamed university, she should at least get the Order of Canada for opening the public’s eyes to what has happened to education in this country.
Agreed.
I am a retired engineer and I completely agree with you. education does not make you smart, it makes you dim-witted and insular.
Kitsis made a great video. Hopefully she makes more.
from comments at the link:
“it isnt word salad, it’s word cole slaw”
LOL !!!
suffice to say its a bluddy good thing for pysshat and rambukabukabuka it wasnt ME they were grilling.
my generatiion, take it or leave it, good and bad, was one of the most vocal in modern history.
I am also gifted with detailed and extensive recollection of those times and since. lots of ammunition to heave at the sjws and their ‘3rd millenium inquisition’ ilk. this is how it starts you know, piece by piece, bit by bit, gradually pushing the boundaries on what is acceptable tactics in debate. includes recycling old tricks like shouting down the opposition, ganging up on them, physical violence, threatening their job and family.
rambukabukabuka is the REAL nazi here. and it just blew up in his fat smug face.